With all this fuss about under age drinking, how can we blame the youths of today? Especially, given that BBC1 Look North News tonight showed school children celebrating their A Level passes with opening and drinking from a bottle of champagne!
Or, was it the Beeb up to its old tricks again creating an impression and it was really non alcoholic drink?
You take your A Levels aged 18, the legal drinking age. Drinking champagne on a special occasion, is unlikely to amount to irresponsible drinking.
ReplyDelete" In fact most 16 year olds chose to do A-levels".
ReplyDelete18 or 19 for most A Level students. About 4% of the current crop will be 17 ... for one or two weeks more. In any case neither 16 nor 18 has any significance for private drinking ...
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